HB195 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Susan DuBose Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Public K-12 schools, sex education curriculum further provided for, sexual risk avoidance established as exclusive sex education curriculum, local boards of education prohibited from using services of org. that endorses other approaches to sex education, parent or guardian notice of sex ed curriculum required, cause of action for violations established

Description

Under existing law, any program or curriculum in a public K-12 school that includes sex education or the human reproductive process must emphasize abstinence as the only effective protection against unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.

This bill would require that any sex education or human reproductive curriculum or program in a public K-12 school to exclusively teach sexual risk avoidance and encourage the avoidance of any nonmarital sexual activity.

This bill would further provide for the sex education and human reproductive curriculum or program in public K-12 schools, including the provision of information about state laws relating to the financial cost of pregnancy and child care, abortion, and adoption.

This bill would prohibit any sex education or human reproductive curriculum or program from supporting, demonstrating, or providing a referral to or information about how to acquire an abortion, from demonstrating the use of or providing distribution information regarding contraceptives, and from using graphic materials that are sexually explicit, normalize teenage sexual activity, or promote or encourage HB195 INTRODUCED nonmarital sexual activity.

This bill would prohibit any local board of education from using the services of any individual or organization that endorses an approach to sex education that does not prioritize abstinence or that advocates for or performs abortions.

This bill would require each parent or guardian to be provided with notice before sex education or information about the human reproductive system is provided to students, and would provide each parent or guardian with the ability to opt his or her child out of the curriculum or program.

This bill would also allow the Attorney General to enforce the requirements of this bill and would provide the parent or guardian of each student the right to seek a cause of action against a local board of education, its agents, or its employees, to seek compliance with this bill.

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Subjects

Education